matthekc
May 20th, 2012, 04:57 PM
Hello I'll start by saying a little about where I am in my career now and then I want to ask some questions.
I have 3 years of job experience supporting Windows, 2 as a part time technician working on home PC's and small networks and 1 in a large domain environment. Currently I work at a fairly large multi-national corporation as a Level 1 support specialist and right now I plan on staying here for at least another year. Here are some examples of what I do now I do a lot of client support, I do some AD work (everything but GPO's I have created a few, but only under supervision), some basic Exchange tasks creating groups, mailboxes ect... I also do some work with printers and print servers, A little with the Hyper V management tool, and few other things that I don't do that often.
I have been running Linux on and off again for about 5 years or so. I like it and I would like to work with it more. How do you break into a Linux career... is there a Linux help desk market preferably in heterogeneous environments? If not as I begin to move up in my Windows Networking skills what should I be doing or reading to also become a junior Linux admin.
What projects do I need to do to have a basic skill set. I am assuming at least some of it would be stuff like setting up Samba/Ldap and Apache on some VM servers with some VM clients.
Is the Linux+ or LCPI a requirement if so would the Linux+ cut it or should I go LCPI. Also what reading do you guys recommend?
I have 3 years of job experience supporting Windows, 2 as a part time technician working on home PC's and small networks and 1 in a large domain environment. Currently I work at a fairly large multi-national corporation as a Level 1 support specialist and right now I plan on staying here for at least another year. Here are some examples of what I do now I do a lot of client support, I do some AD work (everything but GPO's I have created a few, but only under supervision), some basic Exchange tasks creating groups, mailboxes ect... I also do some work with printers and print servers, A little with the Hyper V management tool, and few other things that I don't do that often.
I have been running Linux on and off again for about 5 years or so. I like it and I would like to work with it more. How do you break into a Linux career... is there a Linux help desk market preferably in heterogeneous environments? If not as I begin to move up in my Windows Networking skills what should I be doing or reading to also become a junior Linux admin.
What projects do I need to do to have a basic skill set. I am assuming at least some of it would be stuff like setting up Samba/Ldap and Apache on some VM servers with some VM clients.
Is the Linux+ or LCPI a requirement if so would the Linux+ cut it or should I go LCPI. Also what reading do you guys recommend?